Johanna Drucker Livres

Iliazd is at once a rich study of a significant figure and a thoughtful reflection on the way a biography creates an encounter with its always absent subject.

Diagrammatic Writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex, as a space of semantically generative relations, has rarely (if ever) been subject to so highly focused and detailed a study. The text and graphical presentation are fully integrated, co-dependent, and mutually self-reflexive. This small book work should be of interest to writers, bibliographers, designers, conceptual artists, and anyone interested in the meta-language of diagrammatic thought in graphic form.

A visionary report on the revitalization of the liberal arts tradition in the electronically inflected, design-driven, multimedia language of the twenty- first century.

The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies .Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human history.Beginning with Biblical tales and accounts from antiquity, Drucker traces the transmission of ancient Greek thinking about the alphabet’s origin and debates about how Moses learned to read. The book moves through the centuries, finishing with contemporary concepts of the letters in alpha-numeric code used for global communication systems. Along the way, we learn about magical and angelic alphabets, antique inscriptions on coins and artifacts, and the comparative tables of scripts that continue through the development of modern fields of archaeology and paleography.This is the first book to chronicle the story of the intellectual history through which the alphabet has been “invented” as an object of scholarship. 

Exploring the intersection of data and the supernatural, this volume delves into the concept of apparitions through various lenses. It features a collection of essays and studies that examine how data shapes our understanding of ghostly encounters and the cultural significance of these phenomena. The contributors offer diverse perspectives, blending scientific inquiry with personal narratives, ultimately challenging readers to reconsider the boundaries between reality and the unseen. This thought-provoking compilation invites a deeper reflection on belief, perception, and the digital age's influence on our experiences.

Focusing on the integration of Digital Humanities tools, this coursebook offers critical frameworks for their application across diverse disciplines. It serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars and practitioners looking to enhance their work through digital methodologies, emphasizing the importance of these tools in contemporary research and analysis.

Narrated by an Archaeon, a species that has existed for 3.8 billion years, this speculative eco-fiction explores how ecological pressures drive animals to adopt human behaviors. The narrative combines humor with unsettling consequences, highlighting the complex relationship between nature and humanity as it unfolds through the eyes of one of Earth's oldest inhabitants.

Fusing digital humanities with media studies and graphic design history, Graphesis offers a critical language for analysis of graphical knowledge and argues for studying visuality from a humanistic perspective, exploring how graphic languages can serve fields where qualitative judgments take priority over quantitative statements of fact.

"Visusalization argues for the importance of using traditional humanistic methodologies for the interpretation of graphical images (bar graphs, pie charts, network diagrams, etc.)"-- Provided by publisher